Lifelong Links
Reconnecting children in care with a long-term support network
Lifelong Links involves working with children in care to reconnect them with people who can offer them support. This could be anyone who has been part of their life. For example, family members, friends, foster carers, teachers, and community members. It aims to bring people together who can offer a young person support into and throughout their adulthood.
Family Rights Group created Lifelong Links. At Daybreak, we offer these services to children and young people in care in Wiltshire and Portsmouth, in partnership with the Local Authority and their Children’s Social Services departments. You can find out more using the links below.
Information for children and young people
Lifelong Links is for young people in care. It helps find people who care about you. This can be people you know well or people you have not seen for a while. It can also be people who you have not yet met. Lifelong Links helps to bring these people together. You will all make a plan about how they can support you now, and in the future.
How do I take part in Lifelong Links?
Talk to your social worker, carer or Independent Reviewing officer. Ask them for more information or to contact the Lifelong Links service for you. If you live in Portsmouth or Wiltshire, Daybreak run the Lifelong Links service. If you live in another area, they will contact another organisation.
Who will help me?
You will have an independent person who will meet you, and talk to you about how it works. Together, you can talk about what you would like to achieve and how you'd like to be included. They will try and find the important people in your life for you.